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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: business.--Right, said Eugenius, and is, of any outward application I would
venture to recommend, the most anodyne and safe.
Was it my case, said Gastripheres, as the main thing is the oil and lamp-
black, I should spread them thick upon a rag, and clap it on directly.--
That would make a very devil of it, replied Yorick.--And besides, added
Eugenius, it would not answer the intention, which is the extreme neatness
and elegance of the prescription, which the Faculty hold to be half in
half;--for consider, if the type is a very small one (which it should be)
the sanative particles, which come into contact in this form, have the
advantage of being spread so infinitely thin, and with such a mathematical
equality (fresh paragraphs and large capitals excepted) as no art or
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